Chapter 18 (Part Two)
Another
Finally, it was time to go. On top of one ma.s.sive, black dragon, were ten other smaller, black dragons, Switch, Alex and Timothy. Circling the magic between them, Switch used that magic to teleport to an aura that was much like his own and Anonym’s.
Upon teleporting, they found themselves in a desolate place that didn"t look habitable at all. In fact, the planet they were on was very small, hardly a planet at all, it was even cold. The sun that was close by, was quite small, and even though it was closer than that of the suns from Roneglaise and Bracabra, it was still very cold. There was only one or two stars in the sky and the planet didn’t look like it had any kind of materials that you could use. What became apparent as well, was that oxygen was scarce, making everyone start to feel slightly dizzy. It was practically a dead place. But, a huge, surrounding, see through "thing", could be seen in the distance. Discovering this, Switch put a shield around them all, and this "thing" seemed to have noticed them almost straight away.
The strange "thing" let out some words, from who knows were, "Food!"
The "thing" slowly made its way towards them and Switch watched as it looked like some kind of sludge.
Seeing through it, it dominated quite a sizable portion of s.p.a.ce, as far as the eye could see. This "thing", was a h.e.l.l of a lot bigger then Anonym as a dragon. Even though it was in the blackness of s.p.a.ce, it was still alive!
This was definitely someone like them!
As the sludge, see through ‘thing’ started to slowly make its way towards them, it started to envelope the land not too far away and literally ate it…
As the little planet started to disappear inside this humongous, see through, sludge looking ‘thing’, it slowly still came closer towards them.
Feeling an imminent sense of danger, Anonym roared and Presley said, "Anonym said to teleport away!"
Teleporting, after Timothy circulated their magic, Switch left with all of them.
Then, they found themselves in the huge building that Switch had made for their farewell gathering, before they had left Roneglaise.
Shapeshifting, Anonym turned slowly to Switch.
Without saying anything, they both stared at each other.
What was that!?
Anonym sat down, all the dragons and people went silent.
Even though her memories were quite hard to recollect, Anonym tried very hard to remember when she had been in s.p.a.ce.
Who had blown up her planet? What happened after that?
While she was determined to find some kind of explanation to what they had just seen, it was another five minutes before someone came running in, with quite a few others.
Upon seeing what was in the middle of the place, they all stopped in shock.
So...Many...Dragons!
One of the dragons roared and the people started to tremble and step back.
Someone came out from the group, looking scared but still having the courage, and then finally smiled. "Switch!"
He started to walk towards them, but another roar was heard and Switch had to look at one of the bigger black dragons, "It"s fine. Calm down."
They lowered their head but still went closer to Anonym, in a form of protection. Another dragon also did the same, making it hard for even Switch to see his beloved woman sitting on the ground, forgetting everyone else.
Sighing, he looked back and smiled as well, "Mark."
Mark slowly walked closer but stopped when the black, scary dragons stared at him. "Ah, we..."
His words went silent. Having already come here in a race for time, then seeing someone that made him happy…Mark became conflicted and wasn"t too sure on what to do next.
"What"s wrong?" Switch said, walking towards Mark.
"...Oh...We, us...I was recruiting more soldiers to help us against the war."
"War?" Anonym stood up very quickly and her eyes glistened with excitement. Forget about memories, this was way more important!
"Great Master Belwin!" Mark yelled with happiness, upon seeing her come out from behind Switch.
"Tell me! What"s going on?" Anonym asked in a rush. The dragons behind her all grunted out, making it hard to have a conversation, so she turned to them, and yelled, "Silence!"
The dragons bowed immediately, they hadn"t seen Anonym like that before! They shut up so much, that Anonym was even able to hear her light breathing, "Better!"
Mark looked at Anonym with reverence. Due to the respect he had for someone able to tame such big dragons, he had gone silent once again.
"Quick! Tell me about this war!" Anonym said impatiently.
Mark happily told them about Parched Badlands declaring war upon the Murkcloud continent, due to their allegiance to the "powerful person". He said that the decree to kill her and her body to be in front of the Emperor of Parched Badlands, was enough to initiate war, not even sending a delegate to negotiate.
They had marched towards them about a month ago, and now they had completely destroyed two clans and their townspeople on the Murkcloud continent, and they were still continuing.
Then, Mark said that they had focused first of evacuating the people, while their army was to be despatched, so they hadn"t even collided in combat yet.
Anonym nodded eagerly, this sounded so great that she could hardly contain her excitement.
Upon seeing his mother like this, even Alex started to get excited, even though he didn"t know why. Seeing this, Switch picked him up and pinched his cheeks, "Calm down!"
Not having much more to say, Mark then ended the conversation with him coming here with these other people to train, so to help defend against the Parched Badlands army. They had been in quite a bit of panic because the Parched Badlands army has nearly twice the amount of people, compared to Murkcloud continent’s army.
Showing a devilish smile, Anonym looked up and then started to laugh.
"Ah, ha...I owe them payback!" Wiping her hands together, she laughed again. “How convenient!”
Being so overwhelmed in excitement, Anonym couldn"t come up with a plan. Haha, what am I to do!? So fortunate! Now to think of something!
Nothing worked, she was just too excited!
Switch laughed at her and walked to her side, "Calm down!"
Now he had said it to both his beloved woman and his beloved son! Even Mark let out a chuckle to the strange family.
Upon knowing that Anonym was on his side, Mark was also getting excited! He wanted to report that they had their "Great Master Belwin" back. But then, he didn"t want to leave his hero just to report!
Switch looked from one to the other and thought they were both idiots!
Without telling anyone what she was planning, she just suddenly transformed into a big dragon and roared.
Mark fell back onto his b.u.m in total shock!
Even Switch was stepping back hurriedly, making him a little angry!
Presley came out to be in front of Mark, and said, "She said to get on."
Mark turned to the huge dragon, that now had other dragons surrounding it. She...Wanted us to get on?
Another roar came from the huge dragon and Presley looked back at Mark, "She said, get on, if you don"t get on, she"ll leave without you."
After Mark breathed in deeply, he got up and walked determinedly towards the huge dragon. The others close by didn"t move at all!
But Mark, he trusted Anonym and he happily climbed up onto the huge dragon proudly! Followed by Timothy, who had no idea what was going on…
The dragon let another roar out and Presley looked at Switch, "We"ll be back later."
Then they flew off, not letting Switch respond.
His shoulders slacked and his eyes held a little bit of lonesomeness and Switch looked at his son and sighed.
He wasn"t going to miss out, smiling, he teleported in the direction all the dragons went...Leaving all the people that were supposed to be "training" behind in complete shock, horror or confusion.
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With Anonym and the other dragons flying, and Switch teleporting, they only took half an hour to get to where they had to go.
With Mark showing the way, Anonym didn"t get lost this time...
Timothy though, couldn’t take it anymore and asked about where they were and who this other man was!
He found that no place here looked at all familiar and all of the people he had met here, so far, had no magic in them!
Upon meeting Mark, he asked him what was going on, even though he had heard it all just before…
Once Mark had said that Anonym was the ‘powerful person’ that had left Parched Badlands, and they had wanted her dead, Timothy suddenly found himself angry!
But, to a degree, it sounded a little similar to Switch’s case. Switch was well known to also be a ‘powerful person’ and Timothy wondered why Bracabra hadn’t heard of Anonym before now.
What he found out next, made his mouth open in shock. Of course! They weren’t on Bracabra anymore! They were on a different planet altogether!
That explained a lot for him, as he remembered never seeing magic inside of Anonym. That this place was instead for ‘cultivation’…
After Mark had told him a small amount of where they were, Timothy was quiet and looked around in even more enthusiasm. Another planet…So what happened earlier…When they had seen that ‘thing’…That too, was another planet! How many are out there!
When they were at the encampment, where the Murkcloud army had put up their defences, Anonym flew around a bit and roared, before coming down to the ground in front of them all.
Whatever they were doing was stopped. Eating, drinking...Pooing...Urinating...
They were all flabbergasted at the sight of such a huge, monstrous dragon coming down, closer and closer towards them!
Their pants would drop, what they were eating would drop and their cups would drop, and in this case making Anonym unhappy!
Upon landing, she shapeshifted straight away and went towards some freedom elixir, before it too also fell, not caring about Mark and Timothy, who fell from a height that hurt their legs upon falling...
Gulping down the freedom elixir, Anonym breathed out and smiled.
Mark, unable to get up for the moment, looked around and hastily said, "Don"t be afraid, she is "Great Master Belwin"!"
The people stared at Anonym with blank expressions. They had all come from different places from Murkcloud continent, but they have all heard of this reincarnation of "Great Master Belwin".
Some of them had even attended the farewell gathering and had seen her before…
After a moment of silence, one started to cheer the name. Then others joined in happily.
It finally became obvious to them that they might be able to fight back and even win this war!
Anonym had forgotten about the dragons, and even Switch, as she continued to gobble up freedom elixir. She hadn"t even said a word all this time, as she happily sat down at one of the places very close to a barrel on the ground.
After a minute of cheering, people went quiet again, and that"s when Switch appeared as well.
There was no surprise to seeing Anonym happily guzzling down freedom elixir and Switch put down Alex.
The black dragons saw that their master was currently indisposed and they landed as well...They heard in her roar earlier and how excited she was…But, it seemed she had completely lost that at the moment, and so they just come to the ground and grunted at close by people.
Presley then came up to Anonym and said, "They are wondering what is going on, are they to kill these people?"
Anonym looked at Presley happily...She nearly nodded her head, due to her happiness, but stopped herself in time.
Laughing she said, "Tell them to stay for now, we will fight soon! Switch give them some treasure for now, keep them happy!"
She was not going to move just yet...She was happy sitting here right next to her freedom elixir!
Wanting to shake his head to her att.i.tude, Switch still walked towards the dragons and did as he was told.
Initially, she had wanted to fight straight away!
But, the event of the potential falling of freedom elixir had totally changed her mind and Anonym forgot all about the upcoming war!
Mark had stumbled up to her happily, even though he was hurt, and started to talk to her.
They chatted and Anonym seemed happy to explain how to cultivate Power to him, since she had already said she would, but a long time ago. Mark was exceedingly happy that she had remembered her promise to him.
After the army saw this, they started to relax and remembered that a few months ago, Switch, Presley and the "Great Master Belwin" were indeed special people and treated them accordingly.
They seemed to relax...
The enemy wasn"t far away, yet they were gathering with kind, happy words that were excited. Anonym had wanted to spar a few hours after sitting down, but was unable to get up...
Switch helped her sit back down comfortably again, and wondered if she had missed this place. Having her take as much freedom elixir as she wanted, made him wonder if he had tied her down.
But the night still continued, as she sat in her beloved"s arms.
Alex became the next star of the show, as he was told to fight in her place!
What made some of the army stare in bewilderment, was because of how much this little three-year-old could hold his own. They knew he was much below them, but this one didn"t take defeat!
Alex took them all on and would look at his mother on the occasion, to see her smile and nod.
Taking it easy upon this little one, they could tell he would take advantage of your weakness and would rile you up to try harder. Yet, on two occasions this little boy was hurt because of one putting more effort into their attack that they had hurt the little man. But not much was needed, he would get up and glare at his opponent and if he needed healing, Switch would click for him. Then they would continue to fight…
The army was just about to fall asleep when General Clish came, and suddenly, everyone was awake again!